Thank you for coming here. This is where I continue to create articles regarding my work in Movement Re-Education, Therapy, and orthopedic rehabilitation. If you experience back, neck, shoulder, or wrist pain, or have balance issues, I can help you. If you’re new here, a good place to start is to read my posting below titled “What I Do as a Feldenkrais Practitioner.” The best to you in great health! James, 1003 Wilshire Blvd. Suite #208,Santa Monica, CA, tel. 310-395-1952, jamesspeer@verizon.net

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

New Book on Feldenkrais® by New York Times Best Seller Author, Dr. Norman Doidge, MD

Dear Health Enthusiast!

Greetings to you!With our recent
celebration this past week of Chinese Lunar New Year, “Year of the Ram”, I am
reminded how here in beautiful, sunny Southern California (most of the time,
anyway) in just a few weeks, if not already, we will be able to enjoy our
wonderful Southland Springtime accolades.

It’s floating all over the Media and Internet. …

New York Times Bestseller, Dr. Norman Doidge, MD, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and poet, has
just released his new book (January 2015) appropriately titled, “THE BRAIN'S WAY OF HEALING:Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from
the frontiers of Neuroplasticity, and is available in all bookstores as well
as at Dr. Norman Doidge’s website, http://www.normandoidge.com/. Dr.
Norman Doidge’s new book on brain and body neuroplasticity contains two
complete chapters devoted to the merits of Movement and Neuromuscular
Reeducation through The
Feldenkrais Method® and features numerous case studies of patients
suffering from neurological disorders and details how in each case the brain
adapts to compensate for the disabilities of the individual patients, often in
unusual and unexpected ways.

The Brain's Way of
Healing focuses on treating brain injury and illness
through neuroplastic treatments and healing, i.e. Feldenkrais Movement
Re-Education.Dr. Doidge explores cases
where patients alleviated years of chronic pain or recovered from debilitating
strokes or accidents; children on the autistic spectrum or with learning
disorders normalizing; symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease,
cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, learning disorders, sensory processing
disorders, attention deficit disorder, as well
as balance problems radically
improved, and other near-miracle recoveries.

Even the
prestigious, Salon, the informativenews magazine website, renown for
focusing on U.S.
politics and current affairs, as well as on reviews and articles
about music, books and film, has already featured a wonderful excerpt from Dr.
Doidge’s book titledas:

“She
Will Dance at Her Wedding”:Healing the
girl born without a part of her brain

The
origin of Moshe Feldenkrais’ therapeutic method reads more like a spy thriller
than a neuroscience textbook.

This article can be found at the following link from Salon’s website.:

You may recall Dr. Norman
Doidge’s previous bestseller back in the year 2007 as:

The Brain That Changes
Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain ScienceHaving
previously sold over a million copies, The Brain that Changes Itself,
was chosen by the Dana Brain Foundation’s Journal Cerebrum, from among the
30,000 books on the brain in English, as the best general book on the brain,
and is also currently available in over a hundred countries and over 20
languages.

If
this all sounds (wonderfully) overwhelming to you, as an Injury Rehab
Therapist, with over 20 years experience being a Certified
Feldenkrais Practitioner, I can greatly help you or a loved one with your
neurological or orthopedic condition.

Wearing my hat as a
Feldenkrais practitioner, I will give to you the sensory motor experience of
what it feels like to move easily, effortlessly and comfortably in all of your
life’s activities and functions.

Please feel free to ask me more about how I can help you at tel. 310-395-1952.

Health is so important.After all, as my
business logo since the early 1990’s declares:

“Health
is All that Matters!”

All the best to you for a
wonderful Chinese Lunar New Year, "Year of the Ram"!

About Me

After a 10-year career with Eastman Kodak Co. as a mechanical engineer, in 1994, I completed the 4-year Feldenkrais® Professional Training Program for Movement Reeducation and Therapy. I have twice presented Feldenkrais for the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA) at their World Fitness Expo & Conventions. I treat all patients having neurological or orthopedic conditions, improving their mobility and action, for a pain-free, comfortable lifestyle.
As a keyboardist, as well as former all-state trumpet player and all-county cross-country runner, I also enjoy working with musicians and athletes, for enlarging their body and self awareness to enhance performance.
As a Feldenkrais practitioner, using my hands-on tactical feedback, I help to expand a client's kinesthetic, or bodily, awareness of themselves. By a person encompassing more of themselves, rather, having a greater self-image, pain or discomfort is eliminated.
James Speer, Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®,
1003 Wilshire Blvd. Suites #203, 208,
Santa Monica, CA 90401, tel. 310-395-1952
www.feldenkraisjamesspeer.com
"Health Is All that Matters!"